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- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion is rewarded by miraculous ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
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- | name = Paul | class = vcard | pretitle = Part of a series of articles on | title = Paul in the Bible ...1 KB (176 words) - 22:14, 29 January 2024
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... The letter indicates that some of the Galatians had been influenced ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion is rewarded by miraculous ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... While the letter is addressed from Paul, many scholars today doubt ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- The First Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles ... While Paul is traditionally recognized as the author of 1Timothy, ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the fifth or sixth century ... he uses Plotinus' well-known analogy of a sculptor’s cutting away ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- The Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the New Testament ... The primary theme of Ephesians is the church, its basic nature and ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher ... disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts, in which he is quoted ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- is a book in the New Testament, written by Paul the Apostle. Paul's most ... Paul also asks the Corinthians to renew their efforts to collect a ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 16:52, 10 February 2024
- John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of ... According to the New Testament, John came from a family of fisherman ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human ... anthropology seeks to understand the nature of the human being through its ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian ... was permissible under the doctrine of Christian freedom from the ...9 KB (1,490 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... including the Acts of Thomas, the Acts of Paul (and Thecla), the Acts ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- disciples of Jesus. Together with the Acts of Paul, it is considered one ... * Acts of Paul and Thecla ==References== * Bremmer, Jan N. The Apocryphal ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Peter, and Cephas—original name Simeon son of Jonah—was one of the Twelve ... by Jesus, who reportedly gave him the keys of heaven and called him the ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- The New Testament is the name given to the second and final portion ... collected into a single volume over a period of several centuries. They consist ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The son of Agrippa I ... the right to name the important post of high priest of Jerusalem. Agrippa ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; "Gift of Yahweh"—first century ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- being vacant"), refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular ... ==Vacancy of the Holy See== In the context of the papacy, sede vacante ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- (10 B.C.E. – 44 C.E.), was the last king of the Jews. He was the grandson ... but suffered several dramatic changes of fortune until the ascension ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- have even suggested that James the brother of Jesus (and perhaps Jesus himself ... has led to divergent interpretations of the Nazirites among Talmudic ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- refers to ecstatic utterances, often as part of religious practices, commonly ... The origin of the modern Christian concept of speaking in tongues ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... In its early history, one of the Church's earliest ecclesiological ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... a later writer who was not a direct disciple of Jesus. Its date has been estimated ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the ... What the nature of the resurrected body is may still be an issue. ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- The Epistle of Barnabas, also known as Pseudo-Barnabas, is a Christian ... Today, it is included in most collections of the Apostolic Fathers. ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament ... #039;s sins, superseding the sacrifices of the "old covenant" ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...29 KB (4,732 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- #039;s will remains free under the action of divine grace. Molina developed ... One of the most controversial thinkers in the history of Catholic ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- [[Image:Ponzo illusion.gif|250px|thumb|right|An example of the Ponzo ... The Ponzo illusion is an optical illusion where a pair of converging ...4 KB (658 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- meanings. The first describes the members of the early Christian movement ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic ... Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation of Plato's Republic. The ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- three different but related meanings, all of them derived from the word ... theology and mysticism recognizes the limits of conceptual understanding or ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency ... The classical approximation of the force of friction, known as Coulomb ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul in the stichometrical ... was done by the original author as a sign of the authenticity of the translation ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of ... As part of the canon of the New Testament, they are foundational texts ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of ... Most Christian denominations accept the doctrine of infant baptism ...16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- by God to spread the "good news" of the Christian message to the ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- Confession of sins is the public or spoken acknowledgment of either ... The practice of confession in the Judeo-Christian tradition goes back ...20 KB (3,112 words) - 18:56, 15 May 2020
- 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot, whose ... still a child, mostly due to his uncle Paul Janet, a professor of philosophy ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- The notion of an Ego or self that precedes all experiences and makes ... ==Kant and the transcendental unity of apperception== "Transcendental ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus ... John the Baptist also had disciples, as did some of the Old Testament ...15 KB (2,501 words) - 03:45, 31 July 2022
- The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city ... The temple was described by Philo of Byzantium: I have seen the walls ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating money or goods, or providing ... Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating extensive financial ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 03:17, 24 November 2022
